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However, the multi-scale and deformation characteristics of ships in remote sensing images, as well as complex scene interferences such as varying degrees of clouds, obvious shadows, and complex port facilities, pose challenges for ship detection performance. To address these problems, we propose a novel ship detection method by combining multi-scale deformation modeling and fine region highlight-based loss function. First, a visual saliency extraction network based on multiple receptive field and deformable convolution is proposed, which employs multiple receptive fields to mine the difference between the target and the background, and accurately extracts the complete features of the target through deformable convolution, thus improving the ability to distinguish the target from the complex background. Then, a customized loss function for the fine target region highlight is employed, which comprehensively considers the brightness, contrast and structural characteristics of ship targets, thus improving the classification performance in complex scenes with interferences. The experimental results on a high-quality ship dataset indicate that our method realizes state-of-the-art performance compared to eleven considered detection models.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15174337","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,4]],"date-time":"2023-09-04T02:43:20Z","timestamp":1693795400000},"page":"4337","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Ship Detection via Multi-Scale Deformation Modeling and Fine Region Highlight-Based Loss Function"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Chao","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Space Optical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4418-605X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianming","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Space Optical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"given":"Dawei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Space Optical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"given":"Hanfu","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Space Optical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"given":"Zhile","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Space Optical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"A two-stage method for ship detection using PolSAR image","volume":"60","author":"Zhang","year":"2022","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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